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Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.

Schorr says in his Manhattan Supreme Court suit that E. 97th Street psychiatrist Marilyn Schiller filed a report saying he was “wholly incapable of taking care of his son” and should be denied his weekend visitation over the greasy burger ban.

Schorr, a corporate attorney turned consultant with degrees from NYU and Oxford University, had planned to take his 4-year-old son to their usual restaurant, the Corner Café on Third Avenue, for his weekly Tuesday night visitation last week.

But the boy threw a temper tantrum and demanded McDonald’s. So he gave his son an ultimatum: dinner anywhere other than McDonald’s — or no dinner.

“The child, stubborn as a mule, chose the ‘no dinner’ option,” the disgruntled dad says in the suit.

“It was just a standoff. I’m kicking myself mightily,” Schorr said.

“I wish I had taken him to McDonalds, but you get nervous about rewarding bad behavior. I was concerned. I think it was a 1950s equivalent of sending your child to bed without dinner. That’s maybe the worst thing you can say about it,” he said.

Adding insult to injury, he said: “My wife immediately took him to McDonalds.”...

There are many psychiatrists who are little more than whores for attorneys. Instead of earning an honest living gouging fucked up people, they earn a lot for not much work helping people fuck over their spouses in family court.

I think that preteen kids are prone to do that. At those ages, they need to have explained to them not only the "what", but the "why". The father should have explained why he wasn't taking the boy to McDonalds.

Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

There are many psychiatrists who are little more than whores for attorneys. Instead of earning an honest living gouging fucked up people, they earn a lot for not much work helping people fuck over their spouses in famemily court.

Trust me, I know this personally as someone who works in Children's Services. There are some really excellent psychiatrists I've worked with, especially within psych hospitals for kids and teens. And some of the ones who do court evaluations are good, too, especially if they are affiliated with a hospital or if the court has their own clinic. But the ones who work for divorce lawyers and are getting paid by the evaluation have left their ethics behind in order to agree with one side of a case.